#surrealist women

Leonor Fini — Character on a terrace, 1938

Leonora Carrington — Chiki Your Country

Leonor Fini — Small Signs of the Night 1985

Leonora Carrington — Lepidopteros (1969).

Leonora Carrington — Jacob’s Ladder

Leonora Carrington — Sanctuaries of the Furies.

Leonora Carrington — The Q Symphony.

Leonora Carrington — A Warning to Mother. 1973.

Leonora Carrington. Various works.

Leonor Fini — Illustration for Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal.

Leonora Carrington — My General Aspirin and His Men.

Leonora Carrington — Step Sister’s Hen (Or Marigold Please Give Me the Answer Do). 1952.

Leonora Carrington — Plain Chant. 1949.

Leonor Fini — Cat Dragon, ink on paper 1977.

Lenor Fini — Ladies of the Night, 1948

Dorothea Tanning — A Very Happy Picture. 1947

Kay Sage 1942.

Yves Tanguy and Kay Sage.

Leonora Carrington — Solar Megalomania.

Leonor Fini — Portrait de femme aux feuilles d'acanthe, 1946

Leonor Fini — Spirits.

Poems by Kay Sage:

AN OBSERVATION

The more I wonder,

the longer I live,

how much water

can stay in a sieve

THE WINDOW

My room has two door

and one window

One door is red and the other is grey.

I cannot open the red door;

the grey door does not interest me.

Having no choice I shall lock them both

and look out of the window.

CHINOISERIE

English, French, Italian,

I can write in all of these,

but, at best, they are translations.

I think in Chinese.

FRAGRANCE

I feel unexpectedly

delicious fragrance

a perfume full of memories

of youth, of spring

which seems to follow my smile

the motion of my hands.

I look in vain

I cannot find it

what can it be?

And then

in a flash, I’ve got it

I know

that’s it

that fragrance

is the memory

of me.

Leonora Carrington — La Joie de Patinage (The Joy of Skating) - 1941

Leonor Fini — Femme assise sur un homme 1942

Leonor Fini — Jugglers, c. 1969

Watercolor, left and pencil. Costume project for John Huston’s film “A Walk with Love and Death”

Leonor Fini — Self Portrait 1941

Leonora Carrington